Devil's Army

Only then did the company commander realize that this was not the National Army's Air Force, but the Air Force of the First Anti-Japanese Army.

As soon as Instructor Yin returned to the airspace over the Japanese position, he immediately followed the commander-in-chief's order and flew to the west of Madaoling with two H-1 bombers.

The company of the 771st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which was responsible for blocking the enemy, retreated hastily while the First Army Air Force was still bombing the Japanese army, and soon caught up with the main force of the regiment.

At this time, the 771st Regiment was already lurking in the jungle west of Madaoling.

Colonel Yukimatsu Ogawa, commander of the 136th Regiment of the Japanese Army, reported to the commander of the Yamaoka Division that they were bombed by the air force of the Devil Force and requested air force support.

We have finally surrounded the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and we must not let them go back to the mountains.

Division Commander Yamaoka ordered: Withstand the bombing of the devil troops and do not let the main force of the Eighth Route Army escape. The Empire's Air Force will arrive soon.

Instructor Yin led two bombers of the First Army to the west of Madaoling and began bombing the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops west of Madaoling were bombed by the First Army's air force and fled in all directions.

Instructor Yin led the bombers to continue bombing the Japanese troops on both sides of the west side of Madaoling. The Japanese troops continued to flee to the two wings.

Upon seeing this, Commander Xu of the 771st Regiment ordered his troops to break out immediately!

Under the leadership of Captain Xu, soldiers of the 771st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army quickly and quietly broke out through the gap created by the First Army's Air Force.

During the breakout, they occasionally encountered some Japanese remnants, but they were also shot dead by them. The sound of the gunfire was drowned out by the explosion of the First Army Air Force bombs.

After the 771st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army successfully broke through, it retreated together with the 772nd Regiment that came to support it.

The First Army's Air Force also completed its bombing cover mission and returned home victoriously.

After the First Army's air force flew away, the Japanese army recovered and continued to attack Madaoling. However, there was no one on the Eighth Route Army's position that had blocked them.

Under the personal leadership of Colonel Ogawa Yukimura, the 136th Regiment of the Japanese Army conducted a comprehensive search of Madaoling, but failed to find any trace of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the Japanese 11th and 12th fighter squadrons were also ordered to rush over for support, but there was no trace of the Eighth Route Army in Madaoling.

The Japanese aircraft expanded the search area to the villages and towns within 129 kilometers around Madaoling, but still failed to find the main force of the th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army moved to the river valley area of ​​Jiedu Township and hid there.

The 129th Division successfully evaded the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese 109th Division this time, and the aviation soldiers of the First Anti-Japanese Army played an indispensable role. They launched the Golden Eagle No. and grasped the encirclement and suppression marching route of the Japanese army in advance, thus avoiding a confrontation with the Japanese army.

Division Commander Liu and Deputy Division Commander Xu also witnessed the role of golden eagles during this great transfer and requested to train their own golden eagle pilots in the army. Unexpectedly, many soldiers signed up.

In particular, soldiers from the 771st Company of the st Regiment, who fought hand in hand with the st Army Aviation Soldiers, signed up more enthusiastically.

When they ambushed the Japanese army in Nanfengju Village, they saw with their own eyes the golden eagles strafing the infantry around the Japanese tanks.

Finally, Deputy Division Commander Xu decided to let Commander Xu of the 771st Regiment select ten soldiers with some cultural knowledge and two aviation soldiers from the First Army to learn the operating techniques and methods of the Golden Eagle.

Deputy Division Commander Xu limited the practical training time for these ten soldiers to one and a half hours in the morning and one and a half hours in the afternoon. The rest of the time, the Golden Eagles needed to scout the movements of the Japanese in the surrounding areas.

Sure enough, at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the Golden Eagle detected about two squadrons of Japanese troops searching towards Jiedu from the direction of Xiyang County.

Commander Liu immediately decided to move the troops back to Madaoling in Xiyang County.

The troops immediately packed up and retreated in an orderly manner.

The company responsible for the blocking mission at Madaoling was responsible for clearing up the traces of the troops while also providing cover.

The Japanese 109th Division searched for two days but could not find any trace of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. As the battle in Taiyuan was tense, they had to stop the search and reinforce the Taiyuan battlefield.

When the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army moved to Zhanshang Town west of Xiyang County, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army had just ambushed the 20th Regiment of the 76th Division of the Japanese Army a few days ago.

After analysis, Deputy Commander Xu of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army thought that the 20th Regiment of the 76th Division of the Japanese Army might once again attack Taiyuan through Guangyang and join forces with the Japanese troops heading south on the Tongpu Railway. He therefore arranged for the 386th Brigade to set up an ambush in Hufeng Village east of Guangyang.

At noon two days later, the golden eagle conducting long-distance reconnaissance confirmed Deputy Commander Xu's judgment.

A Japanese vanguard of about 500 people was advancing towards Guangyang.

The Japanese vanguards all entered the ambush circle of the 386th Brigade, and the ambushing troops immediately opened fire. Chen Xilian's 385th Regiment of the 769th Brigade followed up and attacked the Japanese.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, more than 250 Japanese troops were killed and a number of ammunition and supplies were seized.

By the time the main force of the Japanese army arrived, the 129th Brigade of the 386th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the 385th Regiment of the 769th Brigade had already withdrawn from the battle in advance.

The vanguard of the Japanese army in the encirclement immediately joined the main force and continued to advance towards Taiyuan.

This battle once again made Terauchi Hisaichi pay attention to the Eighth Route Army active behind them.

He continued to implement the strategy that the Army Department required them to advance north and south against the Japanese troops in the Songhu battlefield. At the same time, he put the elimination of the main force of the Eighth Route Army on the combat agenda of the Japanese North China Front Army.